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There’s a little known place in Dubai’s residential Nad Al Sheba neighbourhood where magic happens. Well, it might not exactly be magic, but it certainly comes close: Tashkeel is where some of the region’s most talented designers go to turn their artistic visions into reality. The embod…
When the CEO and owner of Aman Resorts, the OKO Group and Capital Group, Vladislav Doronin, decided to build his dream home back in 2006, he tapped the late Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid for the project and gave her one specific request: “I want to wake up in the morning and just s…
The Lebanese architect Elias Soueidi has won the third annual Audi Innovation Award. Soueidi’s project was selected from over 450 registrations to apply for this year’s competition. His idea, ‘Ruin to Reality’, is an application intended to allow access to virtual 3D models of ruined hi…
Gregory Gatserelia's interiors defy categorisation, each wildly different yet united by drama and a striking centrepiece. Given their baroque grandeur, his unexpected early training comes as a genuine surprise to the uninitiated.
This gorgeous weekend getaway beach house is located on the coast in Amchit, Lebanon, around 40km north of Beirut. It was designed by Karim Nader Studio and Blankpage Architects, a Lebanese firm comprised of Walid Ghantous and Patrick Mezher. Their dramatic 430sqm, three-bedroom design …
My interview with Blankpage gets off to an unsettling start. Sat in their black-walled meeting room, sparsely furnished with Barcelona chairs and large, aesthetic lumps of wood and stone that function as sculpture and furniture, I find myself ranged against the practice’s four principal…
Given the Bauhaus centennial is in 2019, we thought this video was very timely. It goes inside Tecta, one of just a few companies in the world that is faithfully replicating the original pieces of Bauhaus — the school that pioneered the union of art and industrial design for the everyda…
Photographer Marc Goodwin goes behind the scenes at the city’s best architecture firms.
Best of all, there’s not a single clichéd Arabesque motif in sight.
Unpredictable, whimsical and captivating – Bernard Khoury distorts conventional architecture with his evocative buildings. Meet the architect who’s rewriting all the rules of urban living.
The Paris-based, Lebanese-heritage designer turns 1960s Riviera nonchalance and her father's white shirts into a timeless, chic and quietly subversive label that is already crossing continents.
Picture a successful fashion designer 50, 20 or even ten years ago, and you’d likely be thinking of a white man tailoring evening gowns in London or Paris. But today, one of the world’s most watched, most discussed designers is a black man from Chicago; the 37-year-old son of Ghanaian i…